Mill Maintenance Planner

About Alamos Gold Inc.: Alamos Gold is a Canadian-based gold producer with a long-term track record of creating value for all stakeholders through solid financial performance, low-cost production growth, and a company-wide commitment to social responsibility and environmental stewardship. We currently operate three mines – two in Canada and one in Mexico – and we have a strong portfolio of development stage projects, including the Lynn Lake Project and Island Gold Phase 3+ Expansion in Canada, and Puerto Del Aire Project in Mexico.

About Island Gold District: Alamos Gold’s Island Gold District will become one of the largest and lowest-cost gold mines in Canada. With the two mines within the district, Island Gold and Magino employ over 900 team members who work in the underground and open pit operations and are located in northern Ontario, just east of the town of Dubreuilville, 83 kilometres northeast of Wawa.

Join Us in Supporting Safe and Efficient Mine Development! Are you passionate about planning? Do you thrive in an active, safety-focused environment? If you are someone who is looking to develop a career in mining, we want you on our team!

Role Overview/Purpose: The Mill Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning, coordinating, and supporting safe and efficient shutdown maintenance activities for mine and mill assets. The position develops fully scoped, resource-loaded, and schedule-ready work packages that minimize downtime and help achieve production targets. Working closely with maintenance, operations, reliability, engineering, supply chain, contractors, and safety teams, the incumbent ensures shutdown activities are effectively executed and aligned with operational objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain the shutdown work list, scope, priorities, milestones, and planning schedule.
• Conduct field inspections and job walkdowns to confirm scope, access, isolation, lifting, tooling, materials, and safety requirements.
• Prepare detailed work packages including job steps, labour estimates, parts, drawings, permits, procedures, quality checks, and close-out requirements.
• Identify critical-path work, constraints, interdependencies, and contingency plans.
• Coordinate labour, contractors, equipment, cranes, scaffolding, specialized services, and vendor support.
• Confirm materials and services are ordered, received, staged, and available before the shutdown.
• Support development and optimization of the integrated shutdown schedule with supervisors and schedulers.
• Facilitate scope reviews, readiness meetings, risk assessments, and pre-shutdown coordination meetings.
• Ensure planned work complies with site safety standards, lockout requirements, environmental controls, and applicable regulations.
• Track readiness, schedule progress, costs, delays, emergent work, and completion status during execution.
• Provide timely updates to stakeholders and escalates critical risks or constraints.
• Close completed work orders, capture actual labour and material usage, update equipment history, and document lessons learned.
• Support post-shutdown reviews and improve planning standards, job plans, and future shutdown strategies.

What You Bring to the Table:

• Trade certification, technician or technologist diploma, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Experience planning maintenance shutdowns in mining, mineral processing, heavy industrial, or similar operations.
• Strong knowledge of fixed-plant mechanical equipment such as crushers, conveyors, grinding mills, pumps, piping, flotation systems, and material-handling equipment.
• Demonstrated ability to develop detailed job plans, estimate labour and duration, and coordinate multiple work fronts.
• Working knowledge of computerized maintenance management systems and scheduling tools.
• Ability to read technical drawings, equipment manuals, bills of materials, and maintenance procedures.
• Knowledge of maintenance best practices, hazard assessment, lockout, lifting, confined-space, and contractor-management requirements.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
• Valid driver’s licence required; site-specific certifications may be required.

Working Conditions: The ideal candidate for the role will work a rotation of 14 days on, 14 days off. Combination of office-based planning and field work in an operating mine and mill environment. Regular exposure to noise, dust, weather, mobile equipment, stairs, and industrial work areas; required personal protective equipment must be worn. Extended hours, night shifts, weekends, or on-call support may be required before and during shutdowns. Must be able to safely access equipment areas and participate in field inspections.

Ready to make a lasting impact? Apply today and help us continue building a culture of excellence, engagement, and growth!